Glass visualisations

Glass visualisations

I have wanted to create glass art through this whole degree and finally this was the time! 

I very much associate music with bright colour and light and these are qualities that glass certainly has. It also, when low tac fired, has texture and therefore is tactile meaning that this music (my interpretation of) becomes touchable.

Taking inspiration from my music visualisation collages, I took elements and simplified them into thumbnails for glass art.

I found that even though I had simplified my collages into lines to work when much smaller, glass couldn't create a curved line. Therefore I had to make alterations and use the thumbnails for inspiration rather than to exactly copy.

(Right to Left)
1.Beach boys
2.King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
3.The Doors
4.The Cure

1.Green River
2.Elastica


Once the glass had been fired, they look quite different. Some of the colours totally shrivelled up and have disappeared (eg. purple and pale blue). 
They turned from dense images to ones with lots of clear glass. 
I think also that the more simple designs are the better ones (eg. the beach boys)

These images are scans and they look quite blurred. They capture the light through the background but due to the thickness of the glass, the clarity of the textures isn't good.

Unfortunately I can't really create these again because I have totally used up these coloured stringers (sticks).

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Beach Boys

The Doors

The Cure

Elastica

Green River